Rain Channels - paint flaking

[NoCode]

Washed/waxed the Pathfinder yesterday. Noticed the paint on the tall side of the rain channel flaking for first time (only in 1 spot). Knew this was an issue (seen a few threads here), but was holding out hope. It's a 2007 so it's out of warranty.

Other then hitting it w/touchup paint, is there any other tips that you all are doing to address this? I saw a couple guys post they were looking at putting some bedliner material in the channels to protect it, but never saw any follow up.

Thoughts?

[skinny2]

Mine don't look to hot either. Most vehicles have some sort of rubber strip up there...I like the idea of coating it with something.

[JAHBLESSINGS]

you can try to paint the roof.

[NoCode]

you can try to paint the roof.

Hoping not to have to go to that extreme for this one little spot. Plus, if it keeps happening (and it sounds like it will), hoping for a quick repair just to maintain. But thanks for the feedback.

[blink32]

I headed the cracks and peeling off at the pass a year or so ago. Put a layer of clear Acrylic Urethane Elastomeric Sealant in my channels. I forget the manufacturer but other than trapping a bit of dirt I see no issues so far.

[volvite]

Any pictures of the troubled area that you can post?

[NVSteve]

Other then hitting it w/touchup paint, is there any other tips that you all are doing to address this? I saw a couple guys post they were looking at putting some bedliner material in the channels to protect it, but never saw any follow up.

One of those guys was probably me. I've since seen numerous posts on other forums, mostly Xterra related, including pics of bedlined channels. All I can say is I will most definitely be doing this myself. Mine have very minimal flaking so far & can only bee seen when I climb up to wrangle my kayaks. I don't have a picture I can post, but here is a link to one of the Xterra guys:



You can read the whole thread here: http://www.thenewx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=42715

[NoCode]

Other then hitting it w/touchup paint, is there any other tips that you all are doing to address this? I saw a couple guys post they were looking at putting some bedliner material in the channels to protect it, but never saw any follow up.

One of those guys was probably me. I've since seen numerous posts on other forums, mostly Xterra related, including pics of bedlined channels. All I can say is I will most definitely be doing this myself. Mine have very minimal flaking so far & can only bee seen when I climb up to wrangle my kayaks. I don't have a picture I can post, but here is a link to one of the Xterra guys:



You can read the whole thread here: http://www.thenewx.org/forum/showthread.php?t=42715

Wow, that looks awesome. I've got to look into that. Mine has the cracking at the lower edge of the inside channel nearly all the way down. Man this sucks.

Wonder how hard painting w/bedliner is? Thanks for sharing.

[pandarturo88]

Hey, I have the same problem. I went to a body shop and I researched it into it. it seems that area is a seperate panel and is connected to the rest of the body using "seam sealer" and then painted over. the seam sealer expands and contracts and causes the paint to peel and crack. the owest quote I got was like 400 dollars for just the channels and 700 for the whole roof but they also said that it would happen again most likely.